Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue write by Thomas Hoccleve. This book was released on 1999. Thomas Hoccleve's Complaint and Dialogue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Hoccleve's Series, written c.1420 was edited for EETS in 1892. This is a new edition of the first two sections and glosses the poems more fully than before. The introduction presents new findings about Hoccleve, whose poems have attracted much attention in recent years.
The Regiment of Princes
The Regiment of Princes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Regiment of Princes write by Thomas Hoccleve. This book was released on 1999-11-01. The Regiment of Princes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas Hoccleve was born in 1367 and entered government service as clerk in the office of the Privy Seal in 1387, an office that he held until his death in 1426. His earliest datable poem (the Epistle of Cupid, a free translation of Christine de Pisan's Epistre au Dieu d'Amour) was completed about 1402. The Regiment of Princes, written about 1410-11, was composed at a time when England was still feeling the consequences of the deposition of Richard II. Essentially it is addressed to a prince on the subject of his governance, but it exhibits considerable generic instability and thus raises fundamental questions about how we should understand the tone of considerable portions of the poem. For all the problems it presents, The Regiment shows that Hoccleve has strengths as a poet. At times he could be a very talented prosodist. In autobiographical sections of the poem he creates a most interesting early-modern subjectivity. He has distinctive observations to make about his time, and, in his self-critical awareness, probes the limits of what is means to be a poet writing in the wake of Chaucer.
Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches
Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches write by Jennifer Nuttall. This book was released on 2022-09-13. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right.
The Ode Less Travelled
The Ode Less Travelled - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ode Less Travelled write by Stephen Fry. This book was released on 2006-08-17. The Ode Less Travelled available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comedian and actor Stephen Fry's witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry. Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he invites readers to discover the delights of writing poetry for pleasure and provides the tools and confidence to get started. Through enjoyable exercises, witty insights, and simple step-by-step advice, Fry introduces the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Most of us have never been taught to read or write poetry, and so it can seem mysterious and intimidating. But Fry, a wonderfully competent, engaging teacher and a writer of poetry himself, sets out to correct this problem by explaining the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. Fry's method works, and his enthusiasm is contagious as he explores different forms of poetry: the haiku, the ballad, the villanelle, and the sonnet, among many others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is not just the survey course you never took in college, it's a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try.
A Book of Middle English
A Book of Middle English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Book of Middle English write by J. A. Burrow. This book was released on 2013-04-03. A Book of Middle English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 and 1400. New, thoroughly revised edition of this essential Middle English textbook. Introduces the language of the time, giving guidance on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, metre, vocabulary and regional dialects. Now includes extracts from 'Pearl' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'. Bibliographic references have been updated throughout. Each text is accompanied by detailed notes.
